Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled President

Former White House reporter Fulsom (The Billary Quiz) mines his experience to offer the “inside story” on Nixon, and the result is unfortunately a salacious, demonizing account marked by unreliable sources and unapologetic sensationalism of a flawed president and his equally flawed attendants. According to Fulsom, Nixon initiated or approved numerous assassinations that evenhandedly targeted foreign and domestic targets (including columnist Jack Anderson); had homosexual tendencies; conspired with the mob; was an anti-Semitic drunk; and for good measure, a horrible husband. One unexpected element in the story is the role the Watergate burglars may have played in the Kennedy assassination, and many old, often conflicting, conspiracy saws are offered willy-nilly, including the theory that Lyndon Johnson plotted to kill JFK. Fulsom’s problematic sources include “some JFK assassination researchers”; a little known “veteran Nixon watcher”; and discredited New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. (Jan.)